7th Annual Digital Data Conference, Arizona State University
Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference
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Registration fees
Registration fees include the conference, workshops, and refreshments and hors d'oeuvres at poster session and reception:
In-person, Non-student Registration (including virtual participation): $100
In-person, Student Registration (including virtual participation): $50
Virtual Participation Only: *Optional
- Optional virtual registration fees will support the digital format technology, the editing and publication of abstracts, and keeping the conference sustainable. Registration fees are optional for virtual participants but encouraged. When registering, those who wish not to make a financial contribution to the conference will have that option. Although registration is optional, your registration information, even if you opt out of the fee, will allow us to keep you updated about conference activities.
Conference Abstracts
Format
The conference will be structured to allow live presentations among different time zones. Live presentations will be organized by theme and format. Concurrent session blocks will include virtual and in-person presentations. All presenters will additionally be asked to submit a recording of their presentations to be posted on this wiki to ensure their availability to any time zone.
Poster Specifications
Poster Specifications: Posters should not exceed 3’ tall and 4’ feet wide and should be displayed in landscape orientation. Virtual viewing options will additionally be provided.
Agenda
Monday, 5 June 2023
| Day One - Block One | |||
| 9:00AM - 12:00PM PDT | |||
| Plenary Session | |||
| Time | Room 1: Auditorium Click here to join Zoom | ||
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Welcome - Conference framing - Gil Nelson, Director, iDigBio Conference logistics - Jill Goodwin, Conference Manager, iDigBio | ||
| 9:30 - 10:00 | A computer vision for organismal biology Arthur Porto, Assistant Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences and the Center for Computation and Technology at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. Click for Bio | ||
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Before the Pharaohs: Breaking New Ground in the Study of Egypt's Ancient Prehistory Sanaa El-Sayed, Co-founder of the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology center (MUVP), Mansoura University, Egypt & Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, USA Click for Bio | ||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Break | ||
| Concurrent Sessions | |||
| Time | Room 1: Auditorium (In-person) Concurrent 1:Implementing the use of digital data in basic biodiversity research Click Here to Join Zoom for Day 1 , Room 1 |
Room 2 (In-person) Concurrent 2: Digital extended specimens as paradigms for data integration Click Here to Join Zoom for Day 1, Room 2 |
Room 3 (Virtual) Concurrent 3:Innovative imaging techniques for enhancing specimen-based discoveries Click Here to Join Zoom for Day 1, Room 3 |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Merging digitized collections information with open-access spatial data to identify priorities for future collection efforts (Lombardi) | What’s our DEStination? Collaborating to develop a globally network of people and data - the “Digital Extended Specimen” (Buschbom) | Standardizing and Adding Micrographs into Herbarium Workflow to Extend the Digital Specimen (Harmon) |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | The Pilosity Problem: Using Computer Vision Methods to Define a Complex Phenotype in Bees (Seltmann) | Expanding biodiversity occurrence data for ecological collections (Yule) | Standardizing Stacked Focus Imaging of Herbarium Specimens (Czako) |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Signed Biodiversity Data Packages: A Method to Cite, Verify, Mobilize, and Future Proof, Large Image Corpora. (Poelen) | Mobilizing Imagery of Fossil and Extant Specimens from the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology on the Digital Media Repository MorphoSource (López Carranza) | USCH Bryophyte Digitization and Revitalization Project (Harmon) |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Taxonomic translation of bat-virus interaction data via automated alignment tools (Upham) | Data cleaning process in historical collections - Georeference combines old labels and artificial intelligence (Chang) | A Course and Tutorial on Creating 3D Models Using methods in Focus-Stacking and Photogrammetry for Extending Research through Image and Trait Digitization (Big-Bee) (Smith) |
| Day One - Lunch Break | |||
| 12:00 - 1:00 PM PDT | |||
| SEINet Networking Lunch | |||
| The Symbiota Support Hub invites all personnel involved with the SEINet Network to a community-building lunch. Get to know your fellow local curators, collections managers, regional botanists, and other plant folks. Lunch will be provided for attendees who pre-register here by Thursday, June 1st. |
| Day One - Block Two | |||
| 1:00PM - 4:00PM PDT | |||
| Discussion Sessions | |||
| Time | Room 1 | ||
| 1:00 - 2:15 | Discussion Session 1
Symbiota Skillshare and Capacity Building Workshop
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| 2:15 - 2:45 | Break | ||
| 2:45 - 3:45 | Discussion Session 2
Focus group: How a Biological Collections Action Center can Engage Researchers | ||
| Day One - Block Three | |||
| 6:00 pm PDT | |||
| Reception & Tours of ASU Collections The ASU Natural History Collections consist of nine different collections that support the university's teaching, research and public outreach functions. Our collections emphasize flora and fauna from the arid southwest of North America. Since 2018, we operate the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Biorepository, which contains a diversity of nearly 70 collections with close to 400,000 organismal and environmental samples. Since 2021, we manage the iDigBio Symbiota Support Hub, which supports more than 1,000 live-managed collections. Join us on Monday evening for a private tour of the different collections; including the mammalian, insect, mollusk, herbarium, fossil plants, symbiota, beetles, wet collection, as well as the state of the art NEON Biorepository cryo collections. A reception with light appetizers will take place on the patio after the tours. Complimentary buses will be provided to and from the collections site. The ASU Natural History Collections house preserved and dried biospecimens including plants, mollusks (shells), insects, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Sensitivities and allergies may occur in certain individuals. Please consult with a healthcare provider to discuss any concerns before attending tours. |
Tuesday, 6 June 2023
| Day Two - Block One | |||
| 9:00AM - 12:00PM PDT | |||
| Discussion Sessions | |||
| Time | Room 1 |
Room 2 |
Room 3 |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | (Hybrid) Symposium: Addressing Roadblocks and Envisioning Solutions of the Digital Extended Specimen Concept This two-hour session will bring together biodiversity informatics and data experts from throughout our community to address some of the possibilities and challenges implementing the Digital Extended Specimen concept. This session will address solutions to date and additionally look to the community for input and discussion. |
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| 10:00 – 10:15 | (Virtual) Oral Presentation: Engaging the community in FAIR taxonomic data liberation: an overview of training resources at Plazi (Giora) |
(In-person only) Discussion: Addressing Roadblocks and Envisioning Solutions of the Digital Extended Specimen Concept |
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| 10:15 – 11:00 | (Virtual) Discussion Session: Reimagining the future of natural history museums with compassionate collection (Byrne) |
(In-person only) Discussion: Addressing Roadblocks and Envisioning Solutions of the Digital Extended Specimen Concept |
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| Day Two - Block Two | |||
| 1:00PM - 4:00PM PDT | |||
| Plenary Session | |||
| Time | Room 1 | ||
| 1:00 - 1:30 | Crop Wild Relatives and the Role of Herbaria in Future Food Crop Security Makenzie Mabry, iDigBio, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida Click for Bio & Abstract | ||
| 1:30 - 2:00 | Data for Whom? Intellectual Property, Biodiversity, and Indigenous Genomic Data Sovereignty Krystal Tsosie, Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University Beckett Sterner, Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University Click for Bios | ||
| 2:00 - 2:15 | Break | ||
| Concurrent Sessions | |||
| Time | Room 1 (Virtual) Concurrent 1 cont. Implementing the use of digital data in basic biodiversity research |
Room 2 (In-person?) Concurrent 4: Facilitating ecological discovery and understanding |
Room 3 (In-person) Concurrent 3 cont: Innovative imaging techniques for enhancing specimen-based discoveries |
| 2:15 - 2:30 | Using collection data to determine harvesting hotspots for the most traded and threatened medicinal plants of the Eastern Cape province in South Africa (Welcome) | A workflow for capturing ichthyology collections’ information (Cruz) | Automated Multi-View Imaging of Pinned Insects (Tran) |
| 2:30 - 2:45 | Monarch Migration Models: Visualizing Global and Local Priorities for Western Land Managers (Young) | Fish-AIR - A FISH IMAGE DATASET WITH BUILT-IN IMAGE QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (Wang) | Building a Pipeline for Label Reconstruction on the Pin (Hereld) |
| 2:45 - 3:00 | Comparing perspectives of academics and government professionals on their use of online information systems and their reuse of species occurrence data (Martin) | Leveraging deep computer vision to inform conservation assessments and the response of North American butterfly communities to global change (Shirey) | Using robotics to 3D-scan pinned insects and storing models in PlutoF platform: A six-axis tool to acquire focus-stacked macroscopical images for photogrammetrical digitization (Ylinampa) |
| 3:00 - 3:15 | Break | ||
| 3:15 - 3:30 | Completeness analysis for over 3000 United States bee species identifies persistent data gaps (Chesshire) | A New, Global Estimate for Biocrust Carbon and Nitrogen Flux from Terrestrial Ecosystems (Janapaty) | Availability of image preprocessing metadata terms and their effects on calculation of suitability of datasets for machine learning pipelines (Altintas) |
| 3:30 - 3:45 | R Program to Remap & Clean Downloaded SERNEC Data (Czasko) | The California Biodiversity Sentinel Site Network (Bucciarelli) | Digitization efforts at a small Ecuadorian herbarium focused on Applied Botany (Freire-Fierro) |
| 3:45 – 4:15 | Describing the bee biodiversity in Baja California: An analysis of current and historical data (de Pedro) | echinopscis: an extensible notebook for open science on specimens (Nicolson) | Mapping Asia Plants: Initiative and Progress (Ma) |
| Day Two - Block Three | |||
| Dinner on your own |
Wednesday, 7 June 2023
| Day Three - Block One | ||||
| 9:00AM - 12:00PM PDT | ||||
| Discussion Sessions | ||||
| Time | Room 1 | |||
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Open discussion: the NEON Biorepository infrastructure model
This discussion session is offered to complement the opportunity to visit the National Ecological Observatory Network, NEON Biorepository, in person during Digital Data 2023 at Arizona State University. Click here for a video introduction. The NEON project involves a structured, long-term plan to sample new, diverse, prioritized specimens across distributed sites of the North American subcontinent, process and store them a both intermediary peripheral facilities and a permanent centralized location, transform them into Darwin Core occurrences and published extended specimens, and actively make both samples and data available for loan to enable question-driven ecological and evolutionary research. To begin this session, we will offer an introductory presentation of the operational concept and implementation of the NEON Biorepository and of the associated data portal (https://biorepo.neonscience.org/portal/), which dynamically integrates standards from ecological and biodiversity data domains. We will then open the floor for discussion, based on an initial set of framing themes and questions, to jointly explore the prospects of this model in relation to current and future developments in the national and global biocollections infrastructure and data communities. | |||
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Break | |||
| 10:15 - 11:15 | Poster Session | |||
| Day Three - Block Two | |||
| 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PDT | |||
| Concurrent Sessions | |||
| Time | Room 1 (In-person) Concurrent 1 cont. Implementing the use of digital data in basic biodiversity research |
Room 2 (Virtual) Concurrent 4 cont. Facilitating ecological discovery and understanding |
Room 3 (Virtual) Concurrent 5: The impact of digital data on systematic, phylogenetic, and genomic research |
| 1:00 – 1:15 | Harmonizing taxonomic resources is necessary for novel insights into bat roosting dataset (Sherman) | Symbtk: A toolkit for Symbiota (Anders) | MorphoBank: A digital repository of morphological data matrices with integrated phylogenetic analysis capabilities (Long-Fox) |
| 1:15 – 1:30 | Digital Herbarium for the Flora of United Arab Emirates: Novel database towards future plant conservation, biodiversity and sustainability (Mousa) | Toward a global bee functional trait database (Ostwald) | Matching material citations to occurrences: extending the biodiversity knowledge graph (Agosti) |
| 1:30 – 1:45 | Virtual presentation Coordinating Digitization Efforts of Biological Collections in US & Beyond (Wilkins) |
Digital Monographs as Products Exemplary of the Unification and Use of Digital Data (Yoder) | DNA Barcoding of South Carolina Oaks (Czako) |
| Plenary Sessions | |||
| Time | Room 1 | ||
| 2:00 – 2:30 | Supporting Digitized Data through the National Science Foundation Katharina Dittmar, National Science Foundation, Division of Environmental Biology | ||
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Communities of practice across the Americas Samanta Orellana, International Community Coordinator, Symbiota Support Hub & Evolutionary Biology Ph.D. Student at Arizona State University | ||
| 3:00 – 3:30 | Penguin fieldwork and data collection in the age of extended specimens Rachael Herman, NASA FINESST PhD student at Stony Brook University | ||